Islam: Sharia Law

Follow @TheCircumvent AFP, May 16, 2018. Sudanese police lashed a woman 75 times on Tuesday after a court found her guilty of marrying a man without her father’s consent, her lawyer and rights activists said. The woman, a native of… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Two Islamic scholars concerning dancing: Dr. Su’ad Salih, professor of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at al-Azhar University: Islam is a religion of moderation; it does not prevent singing and dancing, but it forbids anything that stimulates people’s desires, whether it be among… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent AFP, April 20, 2018. (Archive link) A group of amorous couples and alleged sex workers were publicly whipped for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia’s Aceh today, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Yet another reminder and rebuke to the notion that Islam treats men and women the same. “It is true that Tunisian women have more rights compared to other Arab women but we want to be compared with European… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Sputnik, March 6, 2018. “The man stems from a good family, unlike the woman.” With this argument, a Swedish court has acquitted an Iraqi man charged with abusing his wife, sparking outrage over the first instance where “Sharia… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Not a deviation or perversion of Islam: Allah, in the Qur’an (7:80-84), says: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Daily Mail Online, AFP, February 27, 2018. Two Indonesian Christians were publicly flogged in Banda Aceh province on Tuesday for playing a children’s entertainment game. The game is seen by authorities in the conservative Muslim province as ‘gambling’… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent No shocker here, just a confirmation of what “Islamophobes” always talk about. Asian Correspondent, February 20, 2018. (Archive link) A review of women’s rights in Malaysia at the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Life under ISIS? No, life under sharia. Tempo.co, February 18, 2018. (Archive link) Two housewives with two single men are charged with 100 stroke caning for alleged adultery in Southwest Aceh Regency. Abdya Regency Public Order Agency and… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Breitbart Jerusalem, February 17, 2018. A Syrian civilian has been accused of “prostitution” and arrested by the Islamic State-affiliated Khaled Bin Waleed armed militia active in the border triangle between Syria, Israel and Jordan, according to the jihadist… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent AFP, February 8, 2018. Saudi Arabia executed four Pakistani men on Thursday convicted of raping and murdering a woman and raping her teenage son, the interior ministry said. The men were also convicted of stealing jewellery [sic] and… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent He was one of 10 people – eight men and two women – caned after Friday prayers for offences including pimping, prostitution and gambling. Channel NewsAsia, January 19, 2018. An Indonesian Christian was publicly flogged on Friday (Jan… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Qu’ran 5:38: As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power. Sahih Bukhari 8:81:780: Narrated ‘Aisha: The… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent You silly Islamophobe, just because they said it on a survey doesn’t mean they actually believe it. Breitbart London, January 11, 2018. A survey of schools in the German region of Lower Saxony has shown that close to… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent RT, January 10, 2018. British tourists in Dubai have been thrown in jail for breaking laws they had no idea existed. From brushing past a stranger to swearing or having sex, holidaymakers have found themselves in hot water… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent To table something, outside of the Unites States usage, means to begin consideration on. Laws going against the Sharia? Blasphemy. If the government is really serious about the rights of Muslim women then the government should consult Muslim… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent “Democracy is cancer. Islam is the answer. Sharia will dominate the world. “We follow the Sharia. From the Sharia is to cut the hands of the thief, from the Sharia is to stone the adulterer.” He said it.… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Daily Mail Online, November 17, 2017. Ten people have been caned for adultery in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where strict sharia law is in force. The pictures show a man and a woman, who is in obvious distress, being… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Survey data released last week by Jakarta-based Mata Air Foundation and Alvara Research Centre showed that one in five high school and university students in Indonesia reported to support the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the archipelago.… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent The question: Are they considered moderate Muslims for holding this view? Note that a caliphate would be governed by Sharia law, and Sharia law still mandates violence on the unbelievers, according to a Sharia law manual certified by Al-Azhar University:… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Reuters, October 26, 2017. Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab on Thursday publicly stoned a woman to death in a town in the south for cheating on her husband, an official told Reuters. Al Shabaab, which has been waging… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Ramadan was questioned regarding the ISIS propaganda and said he likes to watch combat footage. He told authorities he doesn’t believe in ISIS’s violent extremist methods, but he does support the goal of establishing a caliphate, saying he would prefer a peaceful… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Human Rights Watch, October 24, 2017. More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in October 2015, new figures show. People caned include hundreds of men and women punished for… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Breitbart Jerusalem, October 14, 2017. The Islamic State terror organization has published what it claims are photos of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of IS, purporting to show how the murderous group is forcing sharia law on those… Continue Reading →